
Hexcrawl Horrors: Random Wilderness Encounters for OSR Adventures
On Quisicosas since 16 January 2024
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16 January 2024 (on Substack)
What it is about
Hexcrawl Horrors is a collection of ten D100 wilderness encounter tables for OSR RPGs organised by terrain type. Created using the monsters of Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game, it's ideal for use in any OSR-style tabletop RPG with minimal conversion of stats. If you don't own BFRPG, just download the two Basic Fantasy Field Guides (bestiaries) for free. When your players are hexcrawling across an unknown land in a sandbox campaign and you want the option of rolling up almost any type of monster appropriate to the terrain, just look up the relevant table and roll. Animals and humanoids are most common in natural environments, with magical creatures and monstrous beasts making rarer appearances except in the more dangerous types of terrain. This zine includes the following encounter tables: Plains Forests Hills Swamps Mountains Deserts Jungles Wastelands Caves Tombs And as a bonus it includes a system for generating three types of travelling merchants and determining what they have for sale.